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BBS Documentary Interview Collection: Ben Baker, Ken Kaplan, That Old Frog (Ryugen Fisher) Part 3

by: Jason Scott Sadofsky

Publication date: 2004

Usage: Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States

Topics: bbs, bbsdocumentary, interview, ryugen, fisher, ben, baker, ken, kaplan, fidonet

Publisher: Bovine Ignition Systems

Language: English

Interview of Ken Kaplan, Ben Baker, and Ryugen Fisher (That Old Frog)in St. Louis Missouri, January of 2004. Hour 3. Discussion of Fidonet politics, internal issues, triumphs of engineering, influence of Fidonet. Covers some parts of the ARC-ZIP battle, as well as why the various interviewees ultimately left the project. Shot in the same living room in which Fidonet's main implementation was created, at Ken Kaplan's house. Slight video stream corruption (2-3 frames) at the beginning of the interview; doesn't happen again.

Addeddate: 2007-12-18 16:34:49

Closed captioning: no

Color: color

Director: Jason Scott Sadofsky

Identifier: 20040126-bbs-kaplanbakerfrog3

Location: St. Louis, MO, 2004

Run time: 1:02:49

Sound: sound

Year: 2004

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Reviewer: jfalcon - - November 11, 2020
Subject: wonder where Ryugen was going with the ending thought...

considering that these guys were basically writing the fundamental software and doing the operations of large global networks, not to mention Old Frog being a co-inventor of ZModem/XModem1k, I wonder where he was going with the conversation when he got cut off.

Otherwise, enjoying reviewing the tapes and clipping out some sage advise that even today would apply - hopefully to be rerolled into something or at least promoted into new conversations.

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